Surkhi Assembly constituency

Surkhi
Constituency No. 37 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Sagar
Lok Sabha constituency	Sagar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Govind Singh Rajput
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Parul Sahu

Surkhi Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. ^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state. ^[2]

Overview

Surkhi (constituency number 37) is one of the 8 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Sagar district. This constituency presently covers the entire Surkhi town, Rahatgarh tehsil and part of Sagar tehsil of the district. ^[3]

Surkhi is part of Sagar Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bina, Khurai, Naryoli and Sagar in this district and Kurwai, Sironj and Shamshabad in Vidisha district. ^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952	Jyotishi Jwala Prasad		Indian National Congress
1957	Bani Bhushan Rai
1962
1967	N. P. Rai		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Gaya Prasad Kabirpanthi		Indian National Congress
1977	Laxminarayan Yadav		Janata Party
1980	Vitthalbhai Patel		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Laxminarayan Yadav		Janata Dal
1993	Bhupendra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
2003	Govind Singh Rajput		Indian National Congress
2008
2013	Parul Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018	Govind Singh Rajput		Indian National Congress
2020^			Bharatiya Janata Party
2023

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Surkhi ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Govind Singh Rajput	83,551	48.73	−12.38
	INC	Neeraj Sharma	81,373	47.46	+13.20
	NOTA	None of the above	1,079	0.63	+0.08
Majority			2,178	1.27	−25.58
Turnout			171,456	76.41	+2.26
	BJP hold		Swing

2020 bypoll

In the 2020 by-election, Govind Singh Rajput of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Parul Sahu Keshri from the Indian National Congress with a margin of 40,991 votes. ^[5] Rajput secured 93,294 votes while runner-up Parul got only 52,303 votes. ^[6]

2020 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-elections: Surkhi ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Govind Singh Rajput	93,294	61.11	+20.45
	INC	Parul Sahu Keshri	52,303	34.26	−21.07
	BSP	Gopal Prasad Ahirwar	1,585	1.04
	NOTA	None of the above	844	0.55	−0.91
Majority			40,991	26.85	+12.18
Turnout			152,671	74.15	−1.59
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Surkhi ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Govind Singh Rajput	80,806	55.33
	BJP	Sudheer Yadav	59,388	40.66
	NOTA	None of the above	2,137	1.46
Majority			21,418	14.67
Turnout			146,046	75.74
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Rahatgarh
• Surkhi

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
2. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 6.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.
4. "Madhya Pradesh General Legislative Election 2023 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India .
5. "Surkhi Election Result 2018 LIVE: Surkhi MLA Election Result & Vote Share - Oneindia".
6. "Bye Elections 2020 (Parliamentary and Assemblies)" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 25 January 2022.

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